The policy of the South
African government from 1948-92. This was based on the belief
that there are different races and that they should be separate.
(Apartheid=separateness).

The policy was a continuation of the previous customs of segregation.

The underlying purpose of the policy was to maintain low wage
rates for "non-whites". That is, those people designated
as "non-white" were paid less for jobs which anyone
could do and were restricted to mainly manual labor.

There is not a lot of difference from the condition of outright
slavery. The situation could be interpreted as a system of collective
slavery by which the "non-whites" were owned collectively
by the "whites" .

It has come to an end. The laws enforcing it have been repealed:
Group Areas Act; Population Registration Act. The agreements
of 1992-3 were followed by a democratic system.

The regimes of other settler states with a large native population
have some similarities, especially those in Latin America: